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Coloniality of Power When thinking about the colonial movement out of Europe into Africa and onward to the America’s you have to include these historical views: Coloniality of Power, the Idea of Africa, The Atlantic Slave Trade, and the Middle Passage. When I think of the Coloniality of Power I relate back to the 16th and 17th centuries when people were judged and ranked by human intelligence and civilization by whether the people were in possession of alphabetic writing. Then came the 18th and 19th centuries where the measuring stick was history and no longer alphabetic writing. In today’s modern society I feel that people are judged on education and the level of education they have received. I also feel that they are judged on how much money they have because those people with the most money seem to have total control and more power than those who do not have that much money. See people without history were located in a time “before” the “present”. And the people with history were seen as the present with power. Also, when thinking about the Coloniality of Power you have to include Patriarchy. See men were identified with the values of having control, competition, and domination as their core values.